Elsha Combo Control

Commander / EDH* RUW (Jeskai, America)

Suasion

Land (30)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Thought Lash
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought

Instant (24)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (4)

• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elsha of the Infinite
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Gilded Drake

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Artifact (19)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blood Moon

Artifact (2)

• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Urza's Bauble

Instant (2)

• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Opt

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Wow, a Jeskai commander who survives pyroclasm, casts from the top AT INSTANT SPEED without revealing the top of your library life Future sight does...

Wins:

• Senseis + Helm/Key + Elsha = Draw your deck at instant speed

• Swan Song + Copy artifact + Isochron Scepter + Dramatic reversal - Generate infinite birds

There are a lot of really neat interactions, such as flashing in narset + timetwister, stranglehold in response to a tutor, cursed totem in response to a creature activation win such as flash hulk, etc.

Counterbalance is fantastic as well. Not only can you flash it in (although it will not trigger if you do it with a spell already on the stack) with Elsha you have the information about the top of your library, and can maximize the utility by rearranging or just casting the top cards until you hit the desired CMC on top.

With Sensei's, this is even more nutty. You can do the standard tap to draw with Senseis, reveal Senseis for any 1cmc spells you dislike, but now you can flash Senseis in again to counter more spells at varying CMCs.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 2 Rares 19 - 3 Uncommons 13 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.84
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure